Oh yeah, I'd also like to point out that there were a couple 12 year old kids at the field. They were very good about keeping their figer out of the trigger guard, safety on at all times when not on the field, and keeping the gun pointed in a safe direction at all times. Hell, they were being more responsible than me with their guns lol.

If you’re having fun it's all good, but don’t let yourself fall into the trap of thinking that what’s you’re doing is any way “training”. The relation between airsofting and actual firearms and force-on-force training is the same as with LARPing and actual martial arts (something that is often discussed on this site).

I'm mostly just joking around with the whole "training" thing. I don't see this as any more than a fun hobby. Of course, same goes for unarmed martial arts training. If you think you're doing some kind of necessary self defense training, you're being a LARPer.

They're both Classic Army. the WA beretta is actually what I was looking at since all the safety mechanisms function the same as the real deal, though the fact that it uses the weaker type of gas is a little disappointing.

Its not that bad actually, the pistols are a bit more useful if you play indoors than outdoors, mainly because you can expose less of your body than if you are using an AEG.

When you play, shoot people in the legs. The reason being that most people have less equipment/layers of clothing etc on the legs so they are more likely to feel the bb.